Word: tree
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...experiment, they were asked to look at words that came up one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, etc.?they had to give their best guess. Although many swore they had no idea until a sudden burst of insight at about the 12th word, their guesses got progressively closer to the solution: fruit. Even when an idea seems sudden, our minds have actually been working...
...Indeed, the Sudanese turned the park into their residence. Children were born in the makeshift tents held up by tree branches; weddings were celebrated; fellow refugees who transgressed against others were punished there (a makeshift cage was set up among the trees to incarcerate the offenders). But sanitary conditions declined severely and the Egyptians who lived in the high-toned neighborhood around the park complained to authorities of human waste and garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque...
...hand ready to move the refugees to camps in the desert of Dahshur near the Saqqara pyramids in Giza. For almost four hours police officers used microphones to urge the protesters to peacefully end their sit-in. The refugees responded by throwing empty liquor bottles, iron rods, stones, and tree branches at the police. Police reacted by directing high-powered water jets at the refugees. As the police set upon the refugees, a stampede ensued. The clash ended with about 20 deaths and at least 70 injuries; most of the casualties were children and the elderly. Around 75 police officers...
...Martha Makes Nice. Loosed from jail and installed on two TV shows, Martha Stewart ditched her old, competent ice-queen persona and tried to show a softer side that came across as phony as a plastic Christmas tree. Her version of The Apprentice fizzled; while on her daytime show, her frosty dominatrix side seems to be coming back, none too soon...
...owned public lenders into a single entity, reduce the bureaucracy's control over government funds, and cut back on subsidies to local governments. But it wasn't his reforms?bold in conception though they may be?that captured the imagination. It was his visit, on Oct. 17, to the tree-shrouded Shinto shrine just across the moat from the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo known as Yasukuni Jinja. Built in 1869, the shrine (whose name means, of all things, "Peaceful Nation") commemorates the souls of more than 2.5 million of Japan's war dead. Koizumi defends his visits...